FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT MEETING
- How to help students transition from middle school to upper school:
- Kate’s collaborative prj. With 8th graders making students more responsible for own work as a transition to 9th grade and learning how to do independent and self driven work and assignment
- 8th grade film proj. group
- Come up with production co., budget, scripts, shooting calendar, etc.
- Must shoot it and edit it by project deadline with check points throughout
- Teaches teamwork and helps students work as a cohesive group as a transition to the upper school
- 8th grade film proj. group
- Elsa does portrait assign.
- More self driven and more independent than other projects that are more structured
- Encourage students to make their own choices and reflect on what makes for interesting composition
- POTENTIAL PROBLEM AREA:
- Continuity of the art history concept form middle to upper school.
- Upper school art history starts at 1450 A.D. but there is no foundation of art history covering art from beginning of time to 1450 in the middle school
- POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
- Start teaching art history to 8th graders who have a little more maturity
- POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
- Upper school art history starts at 1450 A.D. but there is no foundation of art history covering art from beginning of time to 1450 in the middle school
- Continuity of the art history concept form middle to upper school.
- Sketch book that students in the middle school keep throughout their career at Ransom Everglades School which be an asset help students see how their art changes and as a reference tool of artistic techniques
- Additionally, it will help the upper school teachers get an idea of what work the students have an affinity for
- PERFORMING ARTS:
- Vertical teaming for music theory in middle and upper school classes
- General performing arts integration
- Integrating more multimeda in lesson plans
- Podcasting in 6th grade
- Film proj. in 7th and 8th grade
- Implementing more playwriting in 7th and 8th grade with the hope of carry over into upper school
- Sean is developing curriculum based on classic acting techniques
- SIP
- GLOBAL
- Middle school studio art talked about integrating global art more into curriculum particularly looking at it from a SE Asian perspective
- GLOBAL
- Kate’s collaborative prj. With 8th graders making students more responsible for own work as a transition to 9th grade and learning how to do independent and self driven work and assignment